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The DalaiLama is the highest religious leader of Tibetan Buddhism and, until China instituted direct control in 1959, was its highest political leader.
DalaiLama is a Mongolian title meaning "Ocean of Wisdom", The DalaiLamas are believed to be manifestations of the Bodhisattva of Compassion, whose name is Chenrezig in Tibetan and Avalokiteshvara in Sanskrit.
The DalaiLama has generally wished to discuss the issue of the status of Tibet, while the Chinese government has insisted that negotiations be limited on the conditions of the DalaiLama's return to Tibet.
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The Panchen Lama is second in religious status to the DalaiLama.
The DalaiLama is often thought to be the head of the Gelug, but this position is held by the Ganden Tripa (Holder of the Throne of Ganden, the first monastery established by Lama Je Tsong Khapa, founder of the Gelug).
Until the 14th DalaiLama's exile in 1959, the DalaiLamas resided in Lhasa in the Potala Palace during winter and in the Norbulingka residence during summer.
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Between the 17th century and 1959, each DalaiLama was the most powerful political leader in Tibet, controlling a large portion of the country from their capital at Lhasa.
The DalaiLama is often thought to be the head of the Gelug, but this position officially belongs to the Ganden Tripa (dga' ldan khri pa) (Holder of the Throne of Ganden [dga' ldan], the first monastery established by Je Tsongkhapa (Btsong-ka-pa), founder of the Gelug).
The current DalaiLama has repeatedly stated that he will never be reborn inside territory controlled by the People's Republic of China [1], and has occasionally suggested that he might choose to be the last DalaiLama by not being reborn at all.
The DalaiLama is regarded by Tibetans as one of a succession of (so far) 14 incarnations of the Buddha of compassion, Chenrezig ("the Seeing-Eye" Lord), who long has been considered to be the patron deity of Tibet.
Lozang Gyatso visited the emperor of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, after which the relationship between emperors and DalaiLamas was generally regarded as one between patron and priest.
Jamphel Gyatso was uninterested in politics, and for a 150-year period starting with his reign, day-to-day power was exercised in Tibet neither by Dalailamas nor the Chinese ambans, but by a series of regents.
Between the 17th century and 1959, the DalaiLamas were the most powerful political leaders in Tibet, controlling a large portion of the country from their capital at Lhasa.
The DalaiLama is often thought to be the head of the Gelug, but this position officially belongs to the Ganden Tripa (Holder of the Throne of Ganden, the first monastery established by Lama Je Tsong Khapa, founder of the Gelug).
The DalaiLama is still recognized as the head of the Tibetan government in exile, except by supporters of Chinese communism.
At 15 the Dalai Lama--whom followers consider the reincarnated Buddha of compassion--became leader of both the Tibetan government and the Tibetan Buddhist faith.
DALAILAMA: No. If you're a religious leader you're less likely to act in a scandalous or corrupt manner.
During the time of the 10thDalaiLama[TsultrimGyatso, 1816-37], there was a form of corporal punishment involving the amputation of limbs.
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The DalaiLama is the highest religious leader of Tibetan Buddhism and, until China instituted direct colonialist control in 1959, was its highest political leader.
The whole process might not be that peaceful, sometimes rival groups of lamas each of which "discovers" a children as the true reincarnation, and it turns into a political struggle to decide who is the real DalaiLama.
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With arrangement from the Reception Center of Tibetan Government-in-exile, Dr. Tsewang Tamdin, pharmaceutical director and one of the visiting physicians to HH the DalaiLama during Kalachakra initiation, gave a lecture on dietary and behavioural regimens to the new arrivals from Tibet on the 17th of January 2003.
On the 1st of October, the team left Tashiding for Ravang la. The purpose of their brief visit to Ravang la was to meet and discuss with the concerned officers on the aspects of cultivation of herbs and plants.
Tsewang Tamdin, the Chief Pharmacologist and the Director of Pharmaceutical Department tours Ladakh region as part of an entourage to H.H. the DalaiLama from the 12th of June to the 5th of July 2003.
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This tradition continues with the current DalaiLama (14DL), who voiced an intuition to a TIME reporter once while visiting Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, that he might have previously incarnated as this early President of the United States.
Because one of the bulwarks of "credibility" for the serial-reincarnation hypothesis is that the births of the reincarnated ones are foreseen by the prior incarnation.
The 10th Karmapa had to flee into a thirty-year exile after his camp was attacked by an army operating on orders from the DalaiLama's ministers.
During Jamphel Gyatso's reign, Tibet fought wars with the Gurkhas of Nepal, and received a delegation from England, which was interested in Tibet because of its strategic location in relation to British India, China, and Czarist Russia.
The life story of this DalaiLama is the story of an oppressor -- a feudal figurehead and an eager agent of U.S. imperialist interests: He was trained from childhood to be a feudal god-king -- a career that was cut short when an earthshaking revolution swept in from the east.
The history of the DalaiLamas above is quite accurate, although not in line with the current fashionable capitalist/imperialist-apologist line of starry-eyed Lama-admirers that have so much publicity these days with their postcard imagery of kindly, easily-amused monks (such as the postcard imagery solicited at your website).
He is an elegant lama who is the primary upholder of the 5th DalaiLama’s revealed teachings and at one time was the Nyingma representative to the Tibetan Government.
This Bogd Khan was the first to replicate the role of the DalaiLama in Tibet, that of simultaneous spiritual and temporal leader.
In this context, it was the military strength of Gushri Khan that allowed for the undisputed reign of the Great Fifth DalaiLama over the whole of Tibet, beginning in the middle of the 17th c.
This interview of His Holiness the DalaiLama to Melinda Liu and Sudip Mazumdar about religious and temporal leadership is reprinted from the Dec. 2004-Feb. 2005 issue of Newsweek.
If I weren’t the DalaiLama, most probably I would be a teacher, scientist or engineer.
As early as 1969 I made it clear that it is entirely up to the Tibetan people whether the institution of DalaiLama continues or not.
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Tibetan Buddhism, also called Lamaism in the Western literature, is the characteristic Buddhism of Tibet, also known as Tantrayana and Vajrayana.
The philosophical schools of Buddhism, amongst which the so-called Sarvastivada school is the most important historically in this context, soon came to furnish the teaching that bodily or mental factors are not the self with the additional connotation "because no self exists as a permanent substrate of mental states".
For example, Tibetan Buddhism considers the Bodhisattva of Compassion to be incarnated as the DalaiLama, while some other Buddhists believe in Kwan Yin.
The Mongolian Nyingma lamas didn’t seem to have much to do with the Khans, and kinda despised the later Manchurian overlords, so they don’t make an appearance in the official histories.
Nonetheless, the young Danzan Ravjaa impressed the local Nyingma lamas so much with his early literary precocity and other qualities that at age eight, in defiance of Manchu authorities, he was declared to be the fifth Noyon Khutagt.
It was only through the personal intervention of the 10thDalaiLama, TsultrimGyatso, that Danzan Ravjaa’s life was spared.
